Computational Thinking

College of Engineering and College of Literature, Science and the Arts

Chris Quintana, Associate Professor of Education

School of Education

Coming Soon

About the Initiative

This foundational course, led by Professors Chris Quintana and Krishna Garikipati, is designed to help learners, pre-college and beyond, develop skills to construct computational problems and algorithms. Combining approaches used in mathematics, science and engineering, this course will introduce a variety of foundational topics and concepts including abstraction and decomposition, how to formulate problems in ways that allow learners to use tools to solve them and ways of judging outcomes. Teachers in pre-college environments may benefit by implementing the material in this course in their own classroom context as a gateway to later computer science coursework.